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(NewsNation) — Some manufacture insiders accidental Hollywood, typically left-leaning, is starting to displacement to the right.
Under President Donald Trump's leadership, studios are reportedly placing little accent connected recruiting divers casts and shelving immoderate of their much progressive storylines and characters.
The displacement comes arsenic Trump is calling for his 2024 opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, to beryllium prosecuted on with a fistful of celebrities who supported her.
Right earlier the election, celebrities including Oprah and Beyoncé stumped for Harris, Oprah appearing astatine a rally successful Philadelphia and Beyoncé making an quality successful Houston. Despite anticipation that she mightiness perform, Beyoncé focused her code connected the Democratic propulsion for reproductive rights.
Federal predetermination information shows the Harris run paid implicit $165,000 to Beyoncé's accumulation institution for that rally, and Oprah's company, Harpo, received a cardinal dollars. The Harris run besides made payments totaling $500,000 to Al Sharpton's National Action Network.
Trump claims the fees are amerciable payments for endorsements. Despite his calls for action, truthful far, determination are nary indications of personage charges successful the works.
The Harris run says the payments were for expenses associated with the appearances, not for endorsements. The campaign, on with Oprah and Beyoncé, has denied immoderate wrongdoing.
The president has besides named a radical of Hollywood peculiar ambassadors to code a slump successful the manufacture arsenic studios person mislaid concern to different countries. The manufacture is besides inactive reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and strikes.
Hollywood veterans Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight person been tasked with revitalizing the manufacture and bringing backmost the aureate property of Hollywood.
None of the 3 has made immoderate nationalist recommendations truthful far.
Meanwhile, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has precocious expanded California's taxation recognition programme to $750 cardinal to lure productions backmost to the state.
